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Luke Christian Thomas Marsden (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)

The Rambling Man (talk) has nominated this page for deletion for the reason:

Utterly non-notable reality television "actor" who hasn't won, come second etc. This article provides no substantive evidence of notability whatsoever.

Please discuss this deletion below, but keep in mind that you shouldn't vote on everything and that there may be options that are not just "keep" or "delete", such as merging.

•  Merge per the English Wikipedia to a list of Big Brother housemates article. Cassandra 20:57, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment: agreed if someone is prepared to keep it up to date per en-wiki. Otherwise we'll have a stale article within days. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:59, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment: no verifiable assertion of notability in this article either. How many reality TV people around the world are there? And how many episodes of reality TV shows around the world have there been? The Rambling Man (talk) 21:15, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well, if Simple doesn't think they are notable or want to keep up such a list, then we can delete it. We don't have to have everything the English Wikipedia does. Cassandra 21:54, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
•  Merge According to En.wp, winners of highly broadcasted reality shows like Big Brother are notable. merge with the list, then split off if he wins. Sebb ^Talk 15:59, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
•  Comment: - interesting that so far we have two merges but into an article which doesn't exist which, if it just contained the content of this page, I'd bring straight back here. You can't vote to merge into a page that doesn't exist! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:09, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • That didn't stop three people from supporting my merge proposal on Move Time Monday. Cassandra 17:09, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still puzzled by that... Hippopotamus (talk) 01:31, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Big Brother exists. Redirect to that, then.--TBC 17:06, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• So, the community here on Simple English Wikipedia believe that person on a reality show (of which there are hundreds) who has won anything (of which there are thousands) deserves to be merged into Big Brother which (interestingly) links to the show rather than the ideology initially proposed by George Orwell. I'm shocked. I may create an article about me at this rate.... The Rambling Man (talk) 17:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment: As a reality show expert, this is one of the most (if not the most) highly broadcasted shows on this planet. Sebb ^Talk 17:39, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment: As a (sad) reality show viewer, I'll guarantee you that if he doesn't win, he'll be instantly forgotten. If he does win then he'll be shortly forgotten. Who won series 3, 5, 7? Who knows. Sad but true. (And do go looking it up, that's too easy....) The Rambling Man (talk) 17:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment:. First off, redirects exist to direct users to relevant pages when the actual topic they're searching for isn't notable enough to merit an article. Having a redirect for a reality TV show contestant does not make the contestant notable, rather it means that the contestant is part of something notable. Also, while I agree with you that Orwell's Big Brother is more notable than the television show, Big Brother is a fictional antagonist in a popular book by Orwell and not an ideology (though he does represent an ideology). --TBC 16:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
•  Keep I am willing to regularly update this article if kept. --Terryblack (talk) 23:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete fails to establish notability outside Big Brother.--  † ChristianMan16  04:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• delete. I don't even think a list of Big Brother contestants would pass notability these days, despite what enwiki does. Hippopotamus (talk) 01:35, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, unless he wins when it can be recreated. What about Shaun Astbury? He's out. - tholly ^--Turnip-- 14:13, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment:, the content looks very suspicious, might be true, but as you say, there is no sources to show its credibility. Minor Contributer (talk) 14:16, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This request is due to close seven days after it was filed; that is on approx. Sunday, 27 July 2008 at 8:50 pm, although it may be closed quicker due to this.

The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Keep.  Merge